Boston company makes 15 million medical documents available on the Internet.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 1996-- How does a drug work? How should a disease be treated? Who is researching breast cancer? The answers to these questions, and many more, can be found at a newly launched Internet site. Designed primarily for doctors, Physicians' Home Page (PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. ) combines a number of leading medical databases onto one site on the World Wide Web. Anyone with access to the Internet can query the databases and browse through the published materials to quickly find the answers to their most pressing medical questions. The new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. service incorporates access to abstracts from more 3,750 medical journals totaling approximately 15 million individual documents. The service is backed by an Editorial Board from Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. and other medical institutions. The Editorial Board is also working on creating new documents which will answer the day to day questions faced by doctors and patients. Dr. Michael Rees, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , and Dr. Mark E. Deutchman, University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
Among the new publications offered at the site is MD Digests, a unique service which summarizes current articles from major medical journals, provides links to related sites on the World Wide Web, offers suggested terms for searching medical databases, and provides all of the references published with the article. During the next few months most of this medical information can be accessed for free by doctors and the general public, but in future the company plans to charge a low monthly membership fee. Michael Grover, Product Manager for Physicians' Home Page, says "Our current plan is to charge physicians somewhere between $10 and $20 per month for access to the full service. That works out to a fraction of a cent per document!" Tony Alves, Publisher, supervises the content that is included in the service. He says, "PHP is an excellent platform for publishing new types of materials in partnership with other companies." As an example of this, he cites the interest PHP has aroused throughout the industry. "At least once a day," he says, "I speak with others in the industry who are interested in publishing their content through PHP." The databases, which include the US National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE The online medical database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose parent is the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. MEDLINE contains millions of articles from thousands of medical journals and publications. The consumer section of the site (http://medlineplus. , AIDSLINE AIDSLINE AIDS Information OnLINE , and CancerLIT, are completely searchable. They allow users to search for words appearing anywhere in the databases. Users may also search for words in specific fields, for example, finding all articles published in JAMA JAMA abbr. Journal of the American Medical Association with the word "hypertension" in the title. What's more, many links are provided from the search results directly to the home pages of medical journals. If users would like the full article of almost any of the more than 15 million documents faxed to them, a button within the search results provides an order form. Physicians' Home Page is a service provided by SilverPlatter Education. The SilverPlatter group of Companies is based in the Boston area and currently offers more than 300 CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). products and has been a leader in adapting its searching technology to run on the Internet. -0- The URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. for Physicians' Home Page is http://www.silverplatter.com/physicians. Attention Editor: Photographs of Dr. Rees, Dr. Deutchman, Michael Grover, and Tony Alves are available. Screen shots are also available. Interviews may be arranged. Free press memberships are available to qualified medical journalists. Please contact Michael Grover at 1-617-769-2599. A backgrounder is available. CONTACT: Michael Grover Physicians' Home Page SilverPlatter Education 100 River Ridge River Ridge is the name of more than one location.
Norwood, MA 02062-504 Tel: 1-800-343-0064 (US and Canada) or 1-617-769-2599 Fax: 1-617-769-8763 e-mail: michaelg@silverplatter.com www: http://www.silverplatter.com/physicians |
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